Nolton Village History - Project about the village and its history, includes a schedule of future events.
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Nolton Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Nolton
"Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Nolton In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Nolton
If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Nolton The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Nolton
May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Nolton Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Nolton
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Nolton A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Nolton
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Nolton People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Nolton
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Nolton Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Nolton
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Nolton I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Nolton
Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Nolton "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Nolton
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Nolton Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nolton
"Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Nolton None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Nolton
